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"Ideally, your self-defense will never get physical. Avoiding the situation and running or talking you way out - either of these is a higher order of strategy than winning a physical battle." - Wise Words of Rory Miller, Facing Violence: Chapter 7: after, subparagraph 7.1:medical

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How do I find a person expert in bunkai? Kata? Kumite? Sport tournament? Combat?

This question was asked and answered in the recent Classical Fighting
Arts periodical, i.e. Vol. 2 No. 22 (Issue #45). I really appreciated
the answer they would give, "Any legitimate karate teacher should be
capable of teaching a complete system, regardless of the style."

I
want to go a bit further in explaining that answer. Unlike such
disciplines as medical where one can be a specialist/expert on just one
aspect of the entire/whole medical field, i.e. a ear, nose, throat
doctor; a urologist; a pediatrician; a general practitioner, etc. the
system of martial arts is that one system that is so interconnected and
reliant on each part as a whole it cannot be adequately separated into
specialties as kata person, free-style kumite person, etc.

The
martial systems we have that are classical/traditional to today's
variant are still and always will be a "whole system" that is comprised
of those many parts that make it whole or "one." In order to teach a
system adequately and completely one must learn and
instruct/mentor/teach all facets of said systems from the fundamental
principles of martial systems all the way to the
combative/defensive/protective applications.

In my
humble opinion if you find a teacher who teaches/specializes in teaching
only kata then the system is going to be incomplete and that teaching
may not be whole in and of itself either since even kata is broken down,
atomistic, into parts for teaching and learning that must be
re-assembled by the individual into a holistic "whole system" to have it
"work." I would avoid that and continue to seek out a whole system of
learning the martial arts.

Even today many teachers
are "lacking in cohesive expertise" since many never learned "bunkai" or
"fundamental principles of martial systems" from their instructors
therefore are unable to pass those gems of knowledge to their students.
In their defense many today are working diligently to fill in the
"gapping holes" in their knowledge and expertise - this is really,
really good for the systems.

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